Photographing the Mexican Revolution Commitments, Testimonies, Icons

Name: Photographing the Mexican Revolution Commitments, Testimonies, Icons
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ISBN: 9780292735804

ISBN-10: 0292735804

ISBN-13: 9780292735804

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Mraz

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The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charroraiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 327
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.860
Language: English

John Mraz is Research Professor at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Mexico) and National Researcher III. Among his books are Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity; Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer; La mirada inquieta: Nuevo fotoperiodismo mexicano, 1976-1996; and Uprooted: Braceros in the Hermanos Mayo Lens.